The.Canadian Jewish News. Friday/April 21, 1978 - Page 3
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THEY DEMONSTRATE FOR PEACE
(IPPA photo)
The new Peace Now movement gathered about 30,000 persons for a recent rally at the Tel Aviv Municipality Piaza. The group is calling for greater flexibility from the Begin government in meeting the peace initiative of Egyptian President Sadat.
is slashed to $1.2
By DANIEL SAVILLE
TEL AVIV —
Despite its decision to reduce expenditure on 30th anniversary celebrations due to heavy budget deficiencies, the Israel government has finally announced its plans in honor of the occasion.
With the originally proposed budget for the celebrations slashed from S5.5 million to a mere SI.2 million, the massive Indepen-' dence Day parade has been reluctantly cut out.
One of the main features will be a reunion of all participants in Israel's fight for independence. Veterans of the Hagana, Lechi. and Etzel will assemble together in Jerusalem, side by side with the volunteers who came from the Diaspora to assist in setting up the state, and helped in bringing thousands of Europe's refugees to the then Palestine shores in defiance of the British Mandatory forces.
With the official Independence Day falling on a Wednesday evening (May 11) and Thursday, it has now been decided to make the celebrations a three-day affair, giving all nonessential employees tlie Friday off.
With emphasis on overseas information campaigns, a major focus this year will be the setting up of some 50 Independence Diay celebration commit-
tees all over the world. .
In the major capitals of the world, about 60 special supplements will appear in the local and national newspapers to mark the anniversary.
U.S. Vice-President Walter Mondale has consented to serve as honorary chairman of the American Salute to Israel Comniittce.
Prior to Independence Day.,,, U.S. and Canadian coast-to-coast radio and tclevisionijctworks will air a special Salute to Israel program. Premier Begin
will participate in a New York City parade. Similar parades will take place in large and small cities throughout the world with Knesset members, high-ranking army officers and other well-known figures taking part.
Throughout Canada, supporters of Israel have planned large-scale celebrations and festivities to mark Israel's entry into the fourth decade of its existence.
Ijj, Milan.. Italy, the small Jewish community will have a festive picnic
with special Israeli foods. In Antwerp, Belgium, the many Chassidim will stage a festival .In El Salvador, a forest will be planted in Israel's honor and one of the most important streets will be renamed David Ben-Gurion Boulevard.
The.World Zionist Organization's plans for Independence Day include the mailing, by Israeli schoolchildren, of some 100,000 letters to Jewish children around the world, while at home, the children will plant forests in memory of the hundreds
of thousands of young people who perished in the Holocaust.
And, in Israel, the joy will be mingled with sadness as people recall those many thousands of Israel's sons and daughters who gave their lives in the War of Independence, the War of Attrition, the Sinai Campaign, the Six Day War. the Yom Kippur War and all those who died at the hands of.the terrorist attacks, and most recent of all, the soldiers who fell in the Lebanese incursion.
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Wolf prices create furore
By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM |JTA] —
Awards totalling S50p,-000 were distributed here to nine internationally •prominent scientists who are this year's winners of the Wolf Prize, established several years ago by an anonymous donor, which has become a source ol sharp coniroversv in Israel. •
President Ephraim Kat-zir absented himself from the festive awards ceremonies in the Knesset's Chagall Hall to protest the fact that the SIC million-fund administered by the Wolf Foundation is not earmarked for the encouragement of Israeli scientists.
. There were no Israelis among the winners. Katzir appears to express the feelings of many Israelis that the Wolf Foundation duplicates the work of the Nobel Prize Committee.
The Wolf Prize is often described as Israel's Nobel Prize and, as such, has been the object of both praise and criticism, h is administered under the conditions laid down by the donor, who insisted on anonymity. The prize was given official state recognition when the Knesset approved it by a narrow margin in July. 1975, at the urging of the late Pin-has Sapir.
The awards ceremonies were to have been held at the president's residence and katzir' was to have presented the prizes, In view of his objections, the ceremonies were moved to the Knesset building and Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir made the presentations.
Premier Mcnachem Begin was present, along with members of his cabinet and the Knesset, the diplomatic corps and relatives of the winners. The winners received cash awards oi: 5100,000 which were shared in fields in
which there was more than one award.
They are, in the field of agriculture: Prof. George F. Sprague of the University of Illinois, for linking theoretical quantitative genetic theory with practical plant breeding, resulting in modification, of !the protein- quality of maize, and Prof. Emeritus John C. Walker, of the University of Wisconsin, for contributions to the control of plant disease and his book Plant Pathology-, the standard text on the subject.
In mathematics: Prof. Israel M. Gelfand of Moscow State University, for his work on functional analysis and mathematical group representation, Gelfand, a three-time winner of the Order of Lenin, and the Lenin Prize, did not attend the ceremonies; Prof. Emeritus Carl L. Siegel. of the University of Gottingen, for his contributions to the theory of numbers and complex variables. Siegel was repre-
beyond belief
LONDON [JCNS] —
American Jewish leaders had been "frightened beyond belief when they saw how quickly banking and busjness interests were ready to draw up contracts with Arab customers containing discriminatory clauses against Jews.
This was stated here by Burton Joseph, the national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith speaking at Hillel House to Anglo-Jewish leaders engaged in fighting the Arab boycott, (Burton later gave evidence to the House of Lords' Select Committee hearing evidence on the bovcott.)
sented at the cerenjonies by the former German ambassador to Israel. Per •Fischer.
In chemistry: Prof. Carl Djessari, of Stanford University, for synthesizing the first oral contraceptive. His parents live in Israel. In physics: Prof. Chien-Shiung Wu, of Columbia University', for her work in fundamental phy-
sics in which she demonstrated the correlation between the direction of the beta ray emission with the direction of nuclear spin, a relationship vital. to the study of theoretical physics.
" In medicine: Dr. George D. Snell, of the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, for discovery of the-H-2 antigen in mice, a
breakthrough in the field of immunology; Dr. Jean Dausset, of St. Louis Hospital, Paris and Dr. J.J. van Rood, of the Universir ty of Leiden, for their research into genetic factors affecting human acceptance or rejection of orgari transplants andihe possible role of these factors in -^the control or prevention ' of certain diseases.
Bank Leumi's assets grow by 86% to total of $9.9 biUion
NEW YORK —
Consolidated assets of the Bank Leumi group grew in 1977 by 86.4% — to total S9.9 billion. The assets of Bank Leumi proper reached the sum of S8 billion — an increase of 85.1%. over the previous year.
In line with the groups policy to broaden its capital base in the light of rapid business developments, shares, capital notes and convertible options were issued last year.
Total capital funds (including reserves and surplus) grew last year by
116% over 1976. The caphal funds of Bank Leumi proper came to SI62 million.
Both the considerable relaxation of foreign cur-. rency controls at home and the expansion of Israeli overseas trade made for continued growth in'' the banks international business, says the annual report.
Overseas,. the group now comprises 36 offices, including four banking subsidiaries operating a total of 19 branches, three overseas branches of Bank Leumi; a finance company; a securities invest-
ment and trading Corporation; 10 representative offices; a tourist and immigrant advisory bureau, and a banking agency in New York. The group's overseas staff numbers about 1.000, including 40 Israelis.
At the beginning of 1978, it opened an additional representative office, in Melbourne, Australia, thereby completing its presence on all the five continents of the world.
It also planned in 1978 to open a second in Paris and its 10th branch in New York State.
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